Falling-off structure of operational switch for vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsKeiichirou Yamamoto, Yohichi Yanagi
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Abstract
A switch body portion attached to a center console includes a dial switch. The switch body portion is held on the side of the enter console for attachment through engaging of front engagement portions and a rear engagement portion. When an external force having a specified magnitude or greater acts on the dial switch from the rear, the engaging of the front engagement portions is released, so that the switch body portion falls off downward, rotating around the rear engagement portion. Accordingly, an impact which may occur when some object hits against the dial switch projecting upward from an upper face of the center console from the rear can be properly absorbed.
Claims6
A falling-off structure of an operational switch for a vehicle, comprising:
- a switch body portion provided to be attachable to a center console, the switch body portion including a dial type of operation portion projecting upward from an upper face of the center console;
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- front and rear engagement portions provided to hold the switch body portion at the center console for attachment through their engaging,
- wherein said front and rear engagement portions are configured such that when an external force having a specified magnitude or greater acts on the dial type of operation portion of said switch body portion from the rear, the engaging of the front engagement portion is released so as to allow the switch body portion to fall off downward, rotating around said rear engagement portion,
- an upper panel which has a through hole into which said dial type of operation portion is inserted is fixed to the center console such that an outer peripheral edge portion of the upper panel is continuous to an upper face of the center console substantially flatly, and said switch body portion is configured to be held at the upper panel via said front and rear engagement portions and such that when the external force having the specified magnitude or greater acts on the dial type of operation portion of the switch body portion from the rear, the engaging of the front engagement portion is released, keeping a state of the upper panel being fixed to the center console, so as to allow the switch body portion to fall off downward, rotating around the rear engagement portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.